Netflix Takes Broadband to the Broken Screen

Netflix will do more to stop customers from bypassing country restrictions, Miles fixes his laptop screen, Donald Rumsfeld makes an iOS solitaire game based off of Winston Churchill’s design, and more week in geek news.

Facebook Adding Tor support on Android

We created a Tor onion address at https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ in 2014 to make it easier for people to connect to Facebook securely from Tor-enabled browsers. This change increased the security of Tor connections to Facebook by eliminating steps that required traffic to travel beyond the cryptographic assurances provided by the Tor network.

Netflix VPN Story

Netflix has previously

GOP senators want lower Internet speeds to qualify as “broadband“ | Ars Technica

A year after the Federal Communications Commission changed the definition of broadband Internet to include only faster speeds, Republicans in Congress are still mad about the decision.

Fixing a Laptop Screen

Miles tells a story of fixing his MacBook Pro screen…

Hacker accused of trying to frame reporter for buying heroin pleads guilty | Ars Technica

In the previous articles, Krebs explained that Vovnenko established a bitcoin fund so that members of his hacking forum could donate money. Once it reached a balance of $200, the hacker bought heroin through the then-bustling Silk Road online drug emporium. By then, Krebs had already alerted the FBI and local police to the plot, so charges were never filed against Krebs.

All the naked-eye planets will be in the sky at the same time.

If you get up very early over the next couple of weeks, there

Ground Hog Day

The middle segment of this show was repeated 3 times. The first two times I didn’t have the recorder running. Can you tell that we had had this conversation three times?

Video of Editing this Episode and Ben and Lyle talking the mistake


Episode 4, Season 16